The Daum Lab

🔬 Four #ARCTECH doctoral candidates represented the network at #MBoA2026 in Cambridge, sharing research through oral and poster presentations while connecting with the international #archaeal research community. Congratulations to all participants! #Archaea #MSCA #EMBO #HorizonEurope

Congratulations Will and all co-authors!

Congratulations to Sreehari Gopinathan, winner of the Karen Davies Poster Prize at the CCPEM Spring Symposium 2026. The prize (newly established this year) honours the memory of Karen Davies, a much-valued colleague and friend in the cryoEM community, who sadly passed away in 2025.

Be part of the amazing PhD community at the Living Systems Institute, UoE. @exeter.ac.uk Work in a truly interdisciplinary place with Maths, Physics, CS, Bio & Biomed co-located in one building. Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships are open now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... #FindaPhD

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate ribosome hibernation and activation in microsporidia using confocal microscopy, soft X-ray tomography, cryo-electron tomography, and omics approaches. If you are interested, apply here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Last chance to apply for one of the LSI PhD projects intake Sept 2026! Deadline tomorrow, 26.11.2025, noon. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... @exeter.ac.uk @lsiexeter.bsky.social

An exciting PhD opportunity is available in my lab! More info about our group and research can be found here: bdaum2.wixsite.com/daumlab Application deadline: 8th Jan 2026. Apply here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res... If you are interested, get in touch! #ArchaeaSky #CryoEM #TeamTomo

Thank you so much Yann, Emmanuel, Oliver, Vasanthakrishnan, and Raynald for hosting me at IGDR in Rennes. It has been great to learn all about your amazing research and to enjoy your fantastic hospitality!

Another PhD opportunity in my lab starting in September 2026. The CSC-funded project aimed at Chinese nationals will explore the structure and function of the archaellum machinery. #ArchaeaSky. If you are interested, get in touch with me! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to investigate cellular dormancy and ribosome hibernation across plants, fungi, and mammals using #cryoET. If you are interested, apply here: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/66....

Simply amazing: Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail: | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @spp2330.bsky.social

#ArchaeaSky

We have an exciting PhD opportunity to study ribosome hibernation in archaea using cryo-electron microscopy, tomography, microfluidics, omics, and confocal imaging. @daumlab.bsky.social, @lsiexeter.bsky.social Apply via: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Any questions, IM me.

Hellooooo beautiful!😍 #CryoEM #ArchaeaSky 🧪

Wow, this is a thing of beauty🧪 😍😍

beyond cool!

This is incredibly beautiful, and the fact that the resolution is sufficient to follow the path of DNA spooling inside the virion head and through the tail is amazing

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yesterday, we celebrated the life of Deryck Mills, an amazing colleague and friend who touched so many of us and passed away far too early. A day of emotions; tears, laughter and gratitude.

Really enjoyed giving a public talk at the town hall in Eppstein, Germany, sharing our research with the local community. Many thanks to the Kulturkreis Eppstein for organising.

Check out this lovely S-layer review everyone!

Are you a Biophysicist who would like to work in an interdisciplinary institute? Then do not miss this opportunity. More information on the LSI website: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...

Here we go! @daumlab.bsky.social @mathewmclaren.bsky.social

The S-layer is a crystalline protein coat found at the cell envelope of most #archaea, forming a hexagonal symmetry resulting in geometric pores. These self-assembling structures have exciting potential for #nanotechnology! The stunning images were provided by the Daum lab. #ARCTECH #microbiology

Great opportunity here, folks! Great lab, great research, great city!

Great opportunity for all archaea lovers out there!

We are hiring! We seek a motivated postdoc to investigate the ribosomal mechanisms underpinning dormancy and awakening across eukaryotes, using cutting-edge confocal microscopy, volumeEM, and omics. @lsiexeter.bsky.social. Interested? DM me or apply via: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Welcome new scope! 🔬 ❄️

Here is a shoutout to @quaxlab.bsky.social, who is an amazing collaborator on this project and just joined BlueSky. 🦠🔬Wellcome Tessa! #ArchaeaSky @archaeabiotech.bsky.social

Follow @archaeabio.bsky.social: they want to connect researchers with an interest in #archaea www.archaea.bio

The archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius has four different surface filaments. Each of them plays its special role in motility, adhesion, biofilm formation and mating. Our latest cryoEM foray into three of these unique structures is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@archaeabiotech.bsky.social PhD projects are in full swing @daumlab.bsky.social. Ulfur from the Quax lab is showing Jia Yu the nuts and bolts of Haloferax cell culture 🦠 and Mat is teaching Sree sub-tomogram averaging.🔬 🖥️ Exciting times! #Arctech

Exciting news! 🚀 We're launching #ARCTECH, the first EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network focused on #archaea —a fascinating and resilient domain of life with great #biotech potential. By addressing key gaps in archaeal research, we aim to unlock the vast potential of these #microorganisms. 🦠🔬

Want to study towards a PhD uncovering new mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease? As part of our commitment to inclusivity @BristolUni are offering fully funded PhDs (+ stipend) for Black British applicants. dm me if you’re interested in joining us. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We offer two fully-funded PhD studentships to investigate ribosome hibernation in stem cells via cryoET. If you are interested, please apply here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... or here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin.... If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

Repost appreciated: Open #PhDposition in my group! Join us in Umeå, 🇸🇪 to uncover how arboviruses remodel the cellular interior. In situ #cryoET with great #virology and #biophysics collaborators. Customisable project. Application deadline 15 December. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/

We are hosting a PhysicsofLifeUK workshop on the Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Biofilaments at the Living Systems Institute in Exeter, UK. Register here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... Scientific organizers: Kirsty Wan and Bertram Daum